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p. 539 (1873); Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 171 (1875) [Upper Pegu]; 

 David Sf Oustnl. Ois. Chine, p. 400 (1877) [Cochui Cliina, S. China, 

 Is. of Hainan] ; Hume, Str. F. vi. p. 443 (1878) [Karen-nee 

 Hills]; Hume ^- Marshall, Game B. India, ii. p. 27, pi. (1879) 

 [Tonquin] ; Oates, B. Brit. Burmnh, ii. p. 323 (1883) ; id. ed. 

 Hume's Nests ^- Fi/qs, iii. ]). 431 (1890) ; Schaeck, M6m. Soc. Zool. 

 Fr. iv. p. 301 (1891); Grunt, Ihis, 1892, p. 39, 



Adult male. Diflfers from the male of F. jnctus in having the 

 crown of the head surrounded by a band of rufous buff; the scapu- 

 lars are chestnut or chestnut and black spotted with white ; the buff 

 spots and bars on the primaries and secondaries much reduced in 

 size ; the centre pair of tail-feathers have the last third uniform 

 black like the outer pairs ; the lores and superciliary stripe black ; 

 a black baud from the gape, which runs down the side of the throat 

 and surrounding the ear-coverts joins the superciliary; the rest of 

 the sides of the face, chin, and throat pure white ; and the under 

 tail-covcrts rufous buff. Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs dusky 

 orange. Total length 12-6 inches, wing 5-5, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-6. 



The immature male resembles the adult female, but the scapulars 

 are mixed with chestnut and the feathers of the chest and upper 

 breast are partly occllatcd like those of the adiilt male. 



Adult female. Ditfers from the male in having the upper back, 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts black, margined with brownish and 

 with short transverse bars and spots of buff; the scapulars not 

 conspicuously mixed with chestnut, though most of them have a 

 chestnut stripe down the outer half of tlio shaft ; the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts black, tipped with brownish buff and 

 barred with pale buff; the sides of the head washed with rufous 

 butf ; and the uudcrparts whitish buff, barred with black. Total 

 length 12-3 inches, wing 5-6, tail 3, tarsus 1-5. 



In the immature female the rufous-buff band surromiding the 

 crown is not developed. The feathers of the neck, chest, and upper 

 back have wide buff shaft-stripes, and the black bars on the under- 

 parts are broken and irregular. 



Hah. Indo-Chinese countries; Burma, Siam, Cochin China, Hainan, 

 and S. Chiua. Not found in Tenasserim or the Malay Peninsula. 

 Madagascar ?, Reunion, and Mauritius [introduced]. 



a, h. d ad. sk. Karennee, March (7?. G. JV. Tweeddale Coll. 



a.). 



c. S ad. sk. Tonglioo. Tweeddale CoU. 



d. (S ad. sk. 60 miles from Tonghoo. Tweeddale CoU. 

 c-^. cJad. etimm. sk. Thavetmyo, Sept. \b. G. W. Tweeddale CoU. 



it^. 



h-k. (S 2 ad. et Thavetmyo, March, April, Hume Coll. 



imm. sk. Jiuie (E. JV. Oates). 



I. 2 ad. sk. Thavetmyo, Jan. E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 wj. S ad.sk. Thoungyeen River, AprU. C. T.Bingham, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 n-p. d 2 ad. sk. Siam {Schomburr/k). Gould Coll. 



y, r. cJ ad. sk. Bausfkok, March, Aprd( C'a/V. Ur. R. B. Sharps 



Conrad). [P.]. 



